•A staff update on a potential bus route between the Gold Line in Pasadena (Del Mar or Lake stations) and Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. Also, here is another staff report updating ongoing studies of two potential bus rapid transit routes — one serving Vermont Avenue and the other between the Orange Line in North Hollywood and the Gold Line in Pasadena. Funding would need to be secured for all these potential lines.

•Metro staff is asking the Metro Board to “ADOPT the following Official and Operational names for the eight stations that comprise Metro Rail’s Crenshaw/LAX line:

Official Station Name Operational Station Name

Expo/Crenshaw Expo/Crenshaw

Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leimert Park Leimert Park

Hyde Park Hyde Park

Fairview Heights Fairview Heights

Downtown Inglewood Downtown Inglewood

Florence/Hindry Florence/Hindry

Aviation/Century Aviation/Century

•A proposal for a contract with Google to place ads on metro.net as a way to raise revenues for the agency. Staff report

•A motion by Board Members Eric Garcetti and Sheila Kuehl asking Metro to prepare an analysis of a greenway and water filtering project along the Expo Line between Westwood Boulevard and Overland Avenue.

•An update on Metro’s Project Labor Agreement, which seeks to “encourage construction employment and training opportunities to those who reside in economically disadvantaged areas on Metro construction projects,” according to the agency. The gist of it: most of the contractors are meeting most of their hiring goals.

The committees meet on Wednesday or Thursday at Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. You can listen to a web stream of the meetings online by clicking here — a link will appear after the meetings begin.

Official is the long name that often includes the nearly universally disliked self-promoting references that supervisors voted to bestow to each other. (North Hollywood/Zev Yaroslavsky Station; East Los Angeles Civic Center/Gloria Molina Station).